If I could find an active nailwrecks blog I would totally submit that travesty!

I hope you didn't pay them. That is horrible.

No kidding! Heck they should be reimbursing you the cost of having that fixed!!

Unfortunately, I did pay them. I didn't realize right away that it was so bad that I was going to have to have it redone, so at the time it didn't feel like fighting over. Now I'm not sure what to do, since I didn't give them the chance to make it right. Once I realized how bad it was though, there was no way I was letting them touch my hands again! (On top of the bad gel job, the tech got a little over zealous with the Dremel tool on my cuticles, so I especially didn't want them having another go at me with it to file off the gel.) so I don't know if it's kosher for me to go demand my money back now.

Definitely never going back to the "Nail Palace" in my hometown! I actually ended up immediately going elsewhere to have the gel overlay that they did removed and redone. Before I was able to have them redone though, my fiancé exclaimed, "What happened to your pinky?!?" [the pinky nail was the worst of them all], and another gentleman took my hand, looked it over thoroughly, and asked, "Oh, honey, who did this to you?" The lady that redid my nails didn't speak much English. Of the few things she said to me, she commented, "Who do you nails? They UGLY."

I have very small hands/nails, and due to a genetic condition my nails will split and break when they don't have an acrylic or gel overlay, and I haven't had an overlay recently, so my nails were fairly short today. The gentleman that greeted me at the door informed me that my nails were too short for an overlay, so I said I would come back later (really, I intended to go to another salon, where I have had a gel overlay done on my "too short" nails before), but the nail tech insisted that I let her see my hands, and promised that she could do the overlay. I should have listened to the gentleman!

The tech did my first nail reasonably well, but then for the other 9 nails she decided that she was going to use a nail form to extend the length. I noticed that she was using the nail form over the my natural nail, when every tech I've been to previously has used it UNDER the nail, but I figured she was the professional so I was going to trust that she knew what she was doing. Afterwards I would realize I placed far too much faith in her.

During the process, half of the nail forms lifted off of my natural nail, resulting in a gap between my natural nail and the overlay. The gel overlay itself was also unnecessarily thick, resulting in a final outcome of an overlay that was about 2 stacked pennies higher off my finger than my natural nail. They looked like this: and

Speaking of bad smells, I'm finding I can't shop in certain clothing stores anymore. I feel sick everytime I go in. Not that they smell bad, per se, but that there's something in the air that nauseates me. I'm wondering if it's formaldehyde or something. At any rate, it's horrible, because it's DH's favourite shop.

Speaking of bad smells, I'm finding I can't shop in certain clothing stores anymore. I feel sick everytime I go in. Not that they smell bad, per se, but that there's something in the air that nauseates me. I'm wondering if it's formaldehyde or something. At any rate, it's horrible, because it's DH's favourite shop.

Chemicals used in finishing fabrics can do that.

That's what I was wondering about. It's not a perfume smell, it's more like cleaner or some other chemical. Makes me dizzy.

Not buying Garnier hair color again. I covered it completely, thouroughly saturated and it didn't color all of it. I ended up with partially purple locks and some of it a purplish auburn. DH said it looks like I did it on purpose so I guess it doesn't look too bad, but I'm not going to bother with it again. Will go back to L'Oreal as I've always had good results with that.

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Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. You have a right to be here. Be cheerful, strive to be happy. -Desiderata

Not buying Garnier hair color again. I covered it completely, thouroughly saturated and it didn't color all of it. I ended up with partially purple locks and some of it a purplish auburn. DH said it looks like I did it on purpose so I guess it doesn't look too bad, but I'm not going to bother with it again. Will go back to L'Oreal as I've always had good results with that.

Oh, I wonder what happened? I've used Garnier several times without mishap.

Speaking of bad smells, I'm finding I can't shop in certain clothing stores anymore. I feel sick everytime I go in. Not that they smell bad, per se, but that there's something in the air that nauseates me. I'm wondering if it's formaldehyde or something. At any rate, it's horrible, because it's DH's favourite shop.

A friend of mine has to be very careful - sometimes she will touch something that was only just removed from a plastic bag it was shipped it, or if it's still in the bag, and it's a certain kind of bag that seems to be becoming rather more common these days, she turns BRIGHT red. All over. I think it may abate as the items air out, though. But maybe there's something in shipping bag composition that's setting you off?

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"The problem with re-examining your brilliant ideas is that more often than not, you discover they are the intellectual equivalent of saying, 'Hold my beer and watch this!'" - Cindy Couture

Not buying Garnier hair color again. I covered it completely, thouroughly saturated and it didn't color all of it. I ended up with partially purple locks and some of it a purplish auburn. DH said it looks like I did it on purpose so I guess it doesn't look too bad, but I'm not going to bother with it again. Will go back to L'Oreal as I've always had good results with that.

Several years ago I colored my hair with Feria. I was going a shade or two lighter than my natural color, which is ash blonde. My hair turned purple. If you've seen Fried Green Tomatoes, when she gets her hair done by the beauty school student, that is what color my hair was. And since I'd used Feria before and hadn't had an issue, I did it a few hours before I had to work so I had to go in with bruise purple hair.

My mother used to henna her hair black/dark brown. One time she decided on brown with a red tint and it came out black but when she stood in the sunlight her hair halo was a bright, vivid violet. Us kiddos cracked up because it was such a change but we loved it but she never forgave us for laughing. The oldest kid was 10 at the time and the youngest was 2, of course we are going to giggle it was such a change. She did get pulled aside at work and had to re dye her hair pretty quick. Now she sticks with the tried and tested standard box black. I wish she would re tint her hair a vivid colour. She is retired so who is going to complain about it in the workplace and surprisingly she carries off purple and red fantastically well. Wish I could but my colouring is all wrong.

When I retire I am going to have he most ridiculous hair I can think of as often as I can and dress as silly as possible I use hair chalk now because it washes out instantly but I can have rainbow hair for a day.